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SPOT WHOLESALE prices to Buy Gold bounced $10 per ounce from a new 5-month low at $1527 in London trade Wednesday morning, rallying as the Euro, stock markets and commodity prices also retraced their fresh losses.

Spanish and Italian bond yields both eased back but held above 6% as Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy warned the Madrid parliament of "a serious risk that [the markets] don't lend to us or that they lend to us only at astronomical prices."

President Karolos Papoulias of Greece – now losing €700m per day in bank deposits according to senior figures – today appointed a judge to act as interim prime minister ahead of re-run elections now due on June 17.

"Selling continued in Asia today across all exchanges for gold and silver and palladium," says a note from Swiss refinery and finance group MKS's Far Eastern office.

"We have given up waiting for a bounce," says another Singapore dealer. "The market will do what it needs to do to clean out the weakly margined before it becomes healthy once again."

New data from March 31st yesterday showed hedge-fund legend George Soros opted to Buy Gold in the first quarter of 2012, more than trebling his clients' stake in the big New York-listed SPDR Gold ETF.

Fellow billionaire hedge-fund manager John Paulson – who represents the largest single holder of SPDR Gold shares – maintained his clients' stake, leaving it unchanged for the first time since June 2011 at the equivalent of 53.8 tonnes.

Since end-March, prices to Buy Gold have now lost 8%. The total loss from Sept. 2011's record high now reaches to 20% – "the common definition of a bear market," as Bloomberg notes.

"This is an example of our old friend 'the crowded trade'," says John Ventre, manager of Skandia's Spectrum and multi-asset funds, quoted by the UK's Investment Week.

"Very many investors now own the asset, even though the market is in fact incredibly small. As investors – particularly levered ones like hedge funds – take losses in other parts of their portfolio, then selling pressure emerges across the board as investors pull their horns in."

The spot-price to Buy Gold "is not far from our downside target zone at the September and December 2011 lows," says the latest weekly report from technical analyst Axel Rudolph at Commerzbank in Luxembourg.

"Over the next few days a minor bounce back towards the breached 2008-12 uptrend line is likely to be seen before another down leg rears its head, probably by next week."

Like gold, Silver Bullion prices also bounced from new 5-month lows Wednesday morning, adding 50¢ from $27.20 per ounce.

On top of this year's quadrupling of import duty on Gold Bullion, "Gold imports could be discouraged by creating opportunities for more productive investments in the economy," writes RV Kanoria, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) – fresh from urging the privatization of India's coal-mining sector – in the Economic Times of India today.

"A better investment climate through focus on reforms will steer investors to look towards ventures than just stock up gold."

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